EWC 2025 Published the Street Fighter 6 "All You Need To Know" Guide

Esports World Cup 2025 in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh is fast approaching, so the organizers have published the All You Need To Know guide for the Street Fighter 6 tournament. It was incredibly stacked last year, and it looks to be even more tightly-contested this time around.

Xiaohai will return as last year's champion to defend his crown, with 47 other players joining him to compete for $1m in prize money.

Here's the information EWC provided:

SCHEDULE AND FORMAT

Phase 1 (AUGUST 20-21)

• 48 Players split into 12 GSL groups of 4 Players

  • 1 Player from each group advances to Phase 3 (winner)

  • 1 Player from each group advances to Phase 2 (runner-up)

• All matches in this Phase are Bo5 (Ft3)

Phase 2 (AUGUST 22)

• 12 Players split into 4 Round Robin groups of 3 Players

• 1 Player from each group advances to Phase 3

  • Tiebreakers:

    • If 1st place Player is tied with another Player, the entire group is played again

    • If still tied, tiebreakers will be used (Match, Game, Round diff)

• All matches in this Phase are Bo5 (Ft3)

Phase 3 (AUGUST 23)

• 16 remaining Players are seeded into a Single Elimination bracket (with a 3rd place match)

  • 12 Players from Phase 1

  • 4 Players from Phase 2

• All matches in this Phase are Bo9 (Ft5)

PRIZE POOL

• Tournament Prize Pool - $1,000,000

QUALIFIERS

• Xiaohai will return to EWC to defend his championship. 

• The top 12 players from the Capcom Street Fighter League Championships will qualify for EWC 

• The top eight players from the Capcom Cup 11 will qualify for EWC 

• The top two eligible players from each of the following events will qualify for EWC: EVO Japan, EVO USA, Combo Breaker, CEO, Blink Respawn and the Asian Champions League (ACL). 

• The winner, or next eligible player, from each of the following events will qualify for EWC: The Mixup, BAM, Brussels Challenge, GCC, Saudi eLeague Fighting. 

• The EWC Last Chance Qualifier will run from August 14-16 in Riyadh, with the top 10 players qualifying for the main event.